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Obama eager to help advance climate bill

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 28, 2010

President Barack Obama appeared to back away from creating a market in planet-warming emissions on Wednesday in a bid to save the stalled climate change bill, while reaching out to Republicans by promoting nuclear energy and offshore drilling.

Obama said he was eager...

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Subject Tags: energy , Environment

India's 'miracle' biofuel crop: too good to be true?

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 28, 2010

To its fans, jatropha is a miracle crop, an eco-friendly answer to India's growing...

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Subject Tags: Environment , Technology

US climate goal unchanged

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 28, 2010

SENATOR John Kerry, a key US lawmaker trying to craft a cap-and-trade bill, denied a report on Wednesday that advocates of this plan to curb climate change were scaling back their efforts.

'Our goal remains exactly what it was before: to price carbon and to create a...

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Subject Tags: Environment

Electric car company gets $350 million boost

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 27, 2010

An Israeli-American entrepreneur has brought in a $350 million investment to help finance his ambitious plan to lay down the world's first electric car grid by next year, his company announced on Tuesday.

Project Better Place said it signed an agreement with an HSBC-...

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NGOs welcome BASIC stance on climate change

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 25, 2010

International NGOs Sunday welcomed the decision of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC countries) to support the Copenhagen Accord but to have the agreement as part of a legally binding global treaty to combat climate change that would be negotiated by all countries...

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Subject Tags: Disaster , Environment

India, China almost certain to sign Copenhagen Accord

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 23, 2010

India and China are almost certain to sign the Copenhagen Accord, especially since Brazil and South Africa have already done so, say senior officials. Environment ministers of the four countries will meet here Sunday to chalk out their post-Copenhagen climate strategy.

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Carbon emission reduction, brick by brick

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 23, 2010

Copenhagen summit may have failed to draw a succinct map for reduction in carbon emission, but Punjab has started doing its bit, brick by brick.

With an aim to reduce carbon emissions in the brick industry, United Nations Development Programme’s Global Environment...

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Subject Tags: Environment , Technology

IPL partners UNEP for green initiative

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 22, 2010

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has committed to a vision of green growth by launching a partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep).

Under the new initiative, the IPL will green its cricket league and bring environmental awareness to millions of...

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Business must take the lead on carbon management

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 22, 2010

Léo Apotheker is CEO of SAP. The views expressed are his own.

Most people who...

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Subject Tags: Environment , SAP

ICT could aid in planet's big carbon-reduction drive – study

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 22, 2010

International information technology research firm has announced that information and communication technologies (ICT) can be used to curb almost 5,8-million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2020.

Research results were released in a special report...

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Subject Tags: Environment , IDC